This Alice in Wonderland project has been very fun.  Using Comic Life was probably the best part of it.  You can download it here.  Oops, that’s another link.  How many do I have now?  Seven?  Whatever.  Comic Life is fun because you can use speech bubbles, but you can still make a story.  You can also play a practical joke on somebody.  Take a photo of them, then get it onto a computer one way or another (it depends what kind of camera you have), and then put it on Comic Life.  Then you can stretch the picture so the person is really thin and very tall or very short and very fat.  Print the altered picture out and show it to them.  You might get a laugh or two out of it.

This Alice in Wonderland project was a very interesing project.  I had read the book before this, but I had never looked at it this way before.  This project helped me do that.

I have made some more pictures for the scenes. Here they are:

That’s the hatter. In case you’re wondering what the green patches are, he has a skin disease.

That’s the March Hare. If you want a picture of the other rabbit, look at the “trial background” in the previous post. He will be on the left.

Hmmm… It looks like the Dormouse is sleeping. That would explain why he’s upside-down.

That guinea-pig is very freaky. Let’s see the other one:

AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!   VERY FREAKY!!!  That one must have gotten its nose stuck in the ground.

I have started using Comic Life also.  I will show you the entire comic when it is finished.

That’s it for this time, readers!

I have done a bit more with the script. Remember that? Here’s what I did, including what was already there before:

1. “That’s the judge, because of his great wig.” AT
“And that’s the jury-box, and those 12 creatures, I suppose are the jurors.” AT

2. KS “Herald, read the accusation!” KS “Consider your verdict!” RS “Not yet, not yet! There’s a great deal to come before that!” KS “Call the first witness.” RS “First witness!”

3. HS “I beg pardon, your Majesty, for bringing these in: but I hadn’t quite finished my tea when I was sent for.” KS “You ought to have finished. When did you begin?” HS “Fourteenth of March, I think it was.” MHS “Fifteenth.” DS “Sixteenth.” KS “Take off your hat.” HS “It isn’t mine.” KS “Stolen!” HS “I keep them to sell. I’ve none of my own, I’m a hatter.”

4. GP1S “Yay!” (GP1 Suppressed) AT “I’m glad I’ve seen that done, I’ve so often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, “There was some attempt at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court, and I never understood what it meant.” KS “If that’s all you know about it you may stand down.” HS “I can’t go no lower: I’m on the floor as it is.” KS “Then you may sit down.” GP2S “Yay!” (GP2 Suppressed) AT “Come, that finishes the guinea-pigs! Now we shall get on better.”

5. KS “Call the next witness!” (Cook comes to stand) KS “Give your evidence!” CS “Shan’t.” RS “Your majesty must cross-examine this witness.” KS “Well, if I must, I must. What are tarts made of?” CS “Pepper, mostly.” DS “Treacle.” QS “Collar that Dormouse! Behead that Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his whiskers! (Cook disappears in confusion and Dormouse leaves.)

6. RS “Alice!” (Alice comes up to stand and knocks over jury box.) KS “The trial cannot proceed until all the jury men are back in their proper places. All.” (Alice puts all back in, Bill upside-down.) KS “What do you know about this business?” AS “Nothing” KS “That’s very important.” RS “Unimportant, your Majesty means, of course.” KS “Unimportant, of course I meant.”

7. KS “Silence! Rule 42: All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.” AS “I’m not a mile high!” KS “You are.” QS “Nearly two miles high.” AS “Well, I shan’t go, at any rate: besides, that’s not a regular rule; you invented it just now.” KS “It’s the oldest rule in the book.” AS “Then it ought to be No. 1.” KS “Consider your verdict!” RS “There’s more evidence to come yet, please your majesty. This paper has just been picked up.” KS “Are they in the prisoner’s handwriting? RS “No.” KNS “Please, your Majesty, I didn’t write it: and they can’t prove I did. There’s no name signed at the end.” KS “If you didn’t sign it, you must have meant some mischief, or you would have signed it like an honest man.” QS “That proves his guilt.”

8. KS “You never had fits, my dear, I think? QS “Never!” (Queen throws inkbottle at Bill.) KS “Then the words don’t fit you, my dear. (Everyone quiet) KS “It’s a pun! Let the jury consider their verdict! QS “No, no, sentence first! Verdict afterwards!” AS “Stuff and nonsense! The idea of having a sentence first!” QS “Hold your tongue!” AS “I won’t!” QS “Off with her head!” AS “Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!” (Pack attack and Alice wakes up)

I have also been making pictures. Here they are:

All right, the king and queen have very tall crowns, and the queen has very long hair.  Anyway, next picture:

That’s the Knave of hearts in chains at the trial.

This post has to come to an end, or it will go on forever.  I guess that’s something the March Hare (who is a very matter-of-fact rabbit–by the way, don’t ask why he’s called that) would say.  But it’s true.  This is getting too long.  Bye!

Eventually these will end up as comics, and since we are only making a few scenes, we left out the parts where there was barely any action.  Comics usually don’t work too well with dialogue.  Here is a list of what happens in some (the list isn’t done yet) of the sections:

1. “That’s the judge, because of his great wig.”  AT
“And that’s the jury-box, and those 12 creatures, I suppose are the jurors.” AT
2. KS “Herald, read the accusation!”  KS “Consider your verdict!” RS “Not yet, not yet!  There’s a great deal to come before that!” KS “Call the first witness.”  RS “First witness!”
3. HS “I beg pardon, your Majesty, for bringing these in: but I hadn’t quite finished my tea when I was sent for.”  KS “You ought to have finished.  When did you begin?”  HS “Fourteenth of March, I think it was.”  MHS “Fifteenth.” DS “Sixteenth.” KS “Take off your hat.” HS “It isn’t mine.” KS “Stolen!” HS “I keep them to sell.  I’ve none of my own, I’m a hatter.”
4. GP1S “Yay!” (GP1 suppressed) AT “I’m glad I’ve seen that done, I’ve so often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, “There was some attempt at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court,” and I never understood what it meant.”
If you didn’t understand that, don’t freak out.  In other words, freak out.  Here’s a key to it.  All the sentences (or paragraphs) have a mess of capital letters before them.  You will notice that all those messes have “T” or “S” at the end.  That stands for “thoughts” or “speaking”.  The other capital letters indicate who is doing the action.  A=Alice, K=King, R=Rabbit, H=Hatter, GP1=Guinea-pig 1, and GP2=Guinea-pig 2.  I suppose that’s all I’ve been doing since last time I posted.  Soon I’ll be back with more, but for now…Bye!

Actually, the book sold about fifty copies before Dodgson decided to change it. He tried to get all the copies back, but some people wouldn’t return them. Those fifty copies are worth over $1,000,000 today. Try not to beg for one from me. Who knows? Someone might be selling one on ebay. Anyway, he made another version of the book. This one was slightly different. It’s the copy that we have today.

After I learned about Dodgson, I started a project for Alice comics. I am making them with c16rb. Everyone in my class is making comics for one or two chapters. I am making comics for chapters eleven and twelve: Who stole the tarts? and Alice’s Evidence. Remember, this is only stage one. I’ll write another post about this when I’ve made more progress. But I’ll end this one right here. Bye!